Members and prospective members gathered in the historic city of Tartu, Estonia, to celebrate the Feast in the Kantri (Country) Hotel.
Formerly, Estonian members attended the Feast in Denmark or Sweden. However, a reduction in the church's income led to the decision to have a Feast in Estonia.
Felix Heimberg, pastor of the Dallas, Texas, churches, whose parents came from Estonia, provided ministerial support for the Feast site. He was joined halfway through the Feast by Willie and Ingrid Mandel, who pastor the churches in Vienna and Salzburg, Austria, and Munich, Germany.
As Estonian citizens were attempting to discover the meaning of political freedom after national liberation from 50 years of Soviet occupation and oppression, attendees at the Feast were discovering the implications of our freedom in Christ.
Sermons and Bible studies were translated from English to Estonian by Leo Kaagjarv, a deacon in the Tartu congregation.
The members in Estonia, though small in number, continue to be a supportive and loyal part of the body of Jesus Christ.
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